Neighborhood Planning Council 2 - North Central

Monday, the 12th of May, 2025 Meeting Minutes NORTHCENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING COUNCIL #2 Washington Heights – Hub of Hope, 153 N. Wood St.  Please note there was not a quorum at this meeting. 1. Call to Order & Welcome: 6:09 pm Larz. Welcomes. Introductions. What everyone introduces themselves. 2. Attendance: NPC 2 Members (E = Excused - notified an officer/member, X = Present, O = Absent): O Mary Bourgeois X Church of Scientology (Jeff Breedlove – Secretary) O Frank Drury O Faith Temple COGIC (Joe Hooper) E Dr. Monique French - Chair O Grace Health (Eric Gestring ) O Samuel Gray X Larz Martin-Bey - Vice Chair O Neighborhoods Inc. of Battle Creek/NIBC (Whitney Wardell) O Bettie Robertson O Gary McKinley X Ron Sweet O Prentice Thompson O Karen Todd O Cynthia Wyatt O Andre Robinson O Debra Evans O Shanay Settles O Rodney Beckham Guests: X Valerie English X Bernard Gladney X Jose DeJesus City Representation: X Cpl. O’Bryant X Megan Root 3. Adoption of the Agenda: Adoption of agenda tabled 4. Approval / Amendment of Minutes: Tabled. 5. Correspondence (sent/received) & Announcements: Corp O’Bryant: June 21st is the Juneteeth and family day celebration at Claude Evans. (Please submit all correspondence/announcements in writing whenever possible) 6. Committee & City Staff Reports: a. Police Department/Fire Department: Corp o’Bryant: Goes over report. People get charged with felonies when caught with prescription drugs. 19 felony arrests and 40 misdemeanor arrests. Could be warrant arrests too. 127 Traffic stops. Compared to last month. Traffic stops about the same. Mailing Address: City Hall, 10 N. Division St., Room 104, Battle Creek, MI 49014 Phone: (269) 966-3315 Fax: (269) 441-0380 Web: www.battlecreekmi.gov  Monday, the 12th of May, 2025 Meeting Minutes NORTHCENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING COUNCIL #2 Washington Heights – Hub of Hope, 153 N. Wood St. b. Elected Officials: c. Neighborhood Services: Megan: weather is getting nice. Looking at exteriors doing outside improvements. Junk accumulation. Getting people to clean up. Including junk vehicles or eyesore or blight. Let us know. Code team. All taking a week to cover Yolanda. You’ll see one of us. Doing more responses then proactive. Issue on Baldwin with camper being addressed. Getting dumping issue on Lafayette addressed. Keep responding. Jose: factory across from figs? Fat in pond. Megan: That is being addressed. State authorities. Factory machines down. Parts in. train staff, working on it. Horrendous problem, smells bad. It’s very concerning to see that nastiness and hope doesn’t go in water. Not an overnight fix. d. Beautiful battle creek awards. e. Membership: Bernard Glandney wants to be a member. 601 Parrish St. f. Committees: none. g. Battle Creek Public Schools. h. Landbank. i. Grace Health. 7. Presentation: 8. Old Business: 9. New Business. 10. Public Comments/Member Comments: Crp O’Bryant. Parkway manner. Huge fight. One of the officers. Told me a lady told a child to stab the other child. Last week heard were fighting. Don’t know what apartment. First time today officers were able to look. I will meet with management tomorrow. Like we did 2 years ago and evict them . If you her about it call dispatch. A lot of people moving to bc and kzoo. Chicago tore down. Flint. Benton harbor. Different life styles. Running into. Also working on community carnival July 12th. At Washington Heights church. It’s huge. Food and cotton candy, drinks. Root: if you know anybody that can mow lawns. For elderly. I see people with walker Mailing Address: City Hall, 10 N. Division St., Room 104, Battle Creek, MI 49014 Phone: (269) 966-3315 Fax: (269) 441-0380 Web: www.battlecreekmi.gov  Monday, the 12th of May, 2025 Meeting Minutes NORTHCENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING COUNCIL #2 Washington Heights – Hub of Hope, 153 N. Wood St. pushing lawn mower. People are needing it. Discussion. Corp O’bryant: will talk to neighborhood. Could get a group of young men. Root: If we can bridge that gap that would be amazing. Breedlove: Open house on Saturday May 17th.1-3pm at Church of Scientology Corp O’Bryant: Open house for house that was just built. High efficiency home. Kicking off with the Hub of Hope. Now we see another by someone else, Habitat is being built. Wonderful to see. 11. Next Meeting: Monday, June 9th. 6 PM @ Washington Heights UMC. 12. Adjournment: adjourn. Approximately 7:40pm Minutes recorded and submitted by: Jeff Breedlove NPC2 Secretary NPC 2 Mission: To improve the quality of life by listening and engaging residents. NPC 2 Vision: A safe, friendly, family-driven neighborhood where everyone wants to live. The City of Battle Creek will provide necessary reasonable auxiliary aids and services, such as signers for the hearing impaired and audiotapes of printed materials being considered in the meeting upon reasonable notice to the City of Battle Creek. Individuals with disabilities requiring auxiliary aids or services should contact the City of Battle Creek by writing or calling the following: City Clerk Office (269) 966-3348/TDD Mailing Address: City Hall, 10 N. Division St., Room 104, Battle Creek, MI 49014 Phone: (269) 966-3315 Fax: (269) 441-0380 Web: www.battlecreekmi.gov  Monday, the 12th of May, 2025 Meeting Minutes NORTHCENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING COUNCIL #2 Washington Heights – Hub of Hope, 153 N. Wood St. Mailing Address: City Hall, 10 N. Division St., Room 104, Battle Creek, MI 49014 Phone: (269) 966-3315 Fax: (269) 441-0380 Web: www.battlecreekmi.gov